This press release is also available in German. There are two fundamentally distinct families of particles in nature: bosons and fermions. Being a boson or a fermion has profound consequences on the ...

The standard model (SM) of particle physics has developed as a result of painstaking work, over several decades, by a large number of physicists. It is a quantum field theory, combining quantum ...

We knew the HIggs boson decayed into bosons; now we’ve seen it crumble into fermions. ATLAS On July 4, 2012, two experiments (ATLAS and CMS) at CERN announced the discovery of a new boson particle.

Last week, physicists working with the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) particle-smasher at CERN, in Europe, reported that they had detected a Higgs boson decaying into a Z boson particle and a photon.